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GRANT NEWS
OKLAHOMA HIGHER EDUCATION
APRIL-MAY-JUNE-JULY 2010
OSU-CHS Creates Kaiser Chair
Oklahoma State University announced plans for a George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in Excellence in Medical Education and Service at the OSU Center for Health Sciences. The new chair is funded by a previous contribution from the George Kaiser Family Foundation, which is matched by a challenge gift from T. Boone Pickens and when matched by the state of Oklahoma will total $4 million.
OSU Center Distributes Grants to OK Hospitals
The Oklahoma State University Center for Rural Health at the OSU Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa has presented 60 Oklahoma hospitals with grants of $9,100 each from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources & Services Administration Small Hospital Improvement Program. The university received $546,037 to distribute equally among the hospitals to pay for computer software and hardware, training hospital staff on computer information systems and to implementation of systems.
NSF OSU Erosion Study
Oklahoma State University’s Garey Fox,
associate professor of biosystems and agricultural engineering, has been awarded a
$310,000 National Science Foundation
grant to study the processes of stream bank erosion and failure.
OSU- Tulsa Helmerich Research Center
Tulsa’s Helmerich Research Center is no small endeavor with its 123,000 SF of labs, offices and support spaces and high-tech research testing the limits of advanced materials knowledge. Located on the OSU-Tulsa campus north of downtown, the Helmerich Research Center has made significant strides in hiring and equipping a core group of researchers in the two years since it opened. Kenneth Ede, assistant dean of OSU’s College of Engineering, Architecture & Technology
manages the center. Researchers on staff include:
•
Raman Singh, who directs the Mechanics of Advanced Materials Laboratory. Funding for his projects comes from the National Science Foundation, NASA, OCAST and industry sources.
•
Jay Hanan directs more than $2 million in research funding from several source: the aerospace industry, Air Force, Army, NASA, National Institute of Health, Naval Research Laboratory, OCAST and others.
•
Khaled Sallam, fluid dynamics, laser diagnostics, holography, atomization and sprays, droplet based microfluids, nanofibers and nanoparticles, bioflows, nanotechnology and bioengineering.
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Lorenzo Cremaschi, waste heat and recovery technologies, thermal management of electronics, heat exchanger prototypes and food refrigeration and freezing.
•
Reza Abdolvand, design, fabrication and characterization of micro mechanical resonators
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GRANT NEWS
OKLAHOMA HIGHER EDUCATION
APRIL-MAY-JUNE-JULY 2010
OSU-CHS Creates Kaiser Chair
Oklahoma State University announced plans for a George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in Excellence in Medical Education and Service at the OSU Center for Health Sciences. The new chair is funded by a previous contribution from the George Kaiser Family Foundation, which is matched by a challenge gift from T. Boone Pickens and when matched by the state of Oklahoma will total $4 million.
OSU Center Distributes Grants to OK Hospitals
The Oklahoma State University Center for Rural Health at the OSU Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa has presented 60 Oklahoma hospitals with grants of $9,100 each from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources & Services Administration Small Hospital Improvement Program. The university received $546,037 to distribute equally among the hospitals to pay for computer software and hardware, training hospital staff on computer information systems and to implementation of systems.
NSF OSU Erosion Study
Oklahoma State University’s Garey Fox,
associate professor of biosystems and agricultural engineering, has been awarded a
$310,000 National Science Foundation
grant to study the processes of stream bank erosion and failure.
OSU- Tulsa Helmerich Research Center
Tulsa’s Helmerich Research Center is no small endeavor with its 123,000 SF of labs, offices and support spaces and high-tech research testing the limits of advanced materials knowledge. Located on the OSU-Tulsa campus north of downtown, the Helmerich Research Center has made significant strides in hiring and equipping a core group of researchers in the two years since it opened. Kenneth Ede, assistant dean of OSU’s College of Engineering, Architecture & Technology
manages the center. Researchers on staff include:
•
Raman Singh, who directs the Mechanics of Advanced Materials Laboratory. Funding for his projects comes from the National Science Foundation, NASA, OCAST and industry sources.
•
Jay Hanan directs more than $2 million in research funding from several source: the aerospace industry, Air Force, Army, NASA, National Institute of Health, Naval Research Laboratory, OCAST and others.
•
Khaled Sallam, fluid dynamics, laser diagnostics, holography, atomization and sprays, droplet based microfluids, nanofibers and nanoparticles, bioflows, nanotechnology and bioengineering.
•
Lorenzo Cremaschi, waste heat and recovery technologies, thermal management of electronics, heat exchanger prototypes and food refrigeration and freezing.
•
Reza Abdolvand, design, fabrication and characterization of micro mechanical resonators
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